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Asia's 2nd largest department store was extensively damaged by arson following the riots in Bangkok last week.
It was still necesitaing a fire truck to hose down still burning areas 5 days later.
Technical experts were assessing whether the building could be saved or pulled down when this image was being taken.

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Jeremy Fitzgerald, a Research Technician at Penn State University, and I examine honey bee colonies in order to determine whether or not an over-wintered hive can be made into a honey bee nucleus colony. This is a research apiary for the Pennsylvania State University, located at Dr. Diana Cox-Foster's home in Port Mat...

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This was supposed to be a Gigapan of the beach at Two-Step located on the Kona side of the Big Island but my batteries died! Two-Step from what I have heard is one of the best places to snorkel on any of the islands. Because the water gets deep right of shore there is little opportunity for tourists to step all over ...

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This is the view from the hotel bar at the hotel I stayed at on Banyan way in Hilo, Hawaii. Although cloudy and rainy much of the time while I was there the view of the bay was still beautiful, especially at night when you can see the lights from the city across the bay. I would have Longboard beer and think about th...

Dr. Jeff Pettis, Research Leader at the USDA, prepares to suit up for a Varroa control experiment being conducted at Island Princess Farms in Hilo, Hawaii. The hives you see in the panorama will be treated with various miticides in order to determine which has the greatest potential to control mite levels in honey bee...

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This is a panorama of the coast just before you get to Pahala off of Route 11 on the Big Island of Hawaii. I arrived in Kona the night before and and drove from Kona to Pahala to meet a colleague in Pahala to wrap a Varroa Control Experiment in a Macademia Orchard. I had stopped to write in my journal because I had a...

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Dr. Jeff Pettis and Fabiana Ahumada-Segura talk over the logistics of the Varroa Control Experiment. There were 56 colonies included in the experiment at the apiary at Island Princess Farms in Hilo. This apiary was located in a Macademia Orchard on the outskirts of Pahala. 28 hives in this apiary were used in the Va...